Forty-two years later a tunnel was actually begun.
42年以后，隧道实际已经开始建了。
新概念英语第二册 Lesson 64 The Channel Tunnel

📚 句中词汇解析

从本句中提取的重要词汇

tunnel ['tʌnl] 词频2
n. 隧道;地道;烟道;（动物栖息的）穴; vi. 打通隧道;挖掘隧道; vt. 在…挖掘隧道;在…打开通道;
💡 tunn管道+el表名词 →隧道
"the Anglo-French consortium that built the Channel Tunnel"
修建英吉利海峡隧道的英法财团
近义：subway, underpass
actually ['æktʃuəli] 词频2
adv. 实际上;事实上;确实;竟;
💡 actual(真实的)+ly(副词后缀)→真实地；实际地
"What did she actually say?"
她到底是怎么说的？
近义：inclusively, just, authentically, properly, quite, real
forty ['fɔrti] 词频1
n. 四十;四十几; adj. 四十的;
"With the chill factor, it's nearly minus forty here."
加上风寒指数, 气温接近零下40度.
begun [[bi'gʌn]] 词频1
begin的过去分词
later ['letɚ]
adv. 较晚地;以后，过后;后来;随后; adj. 后来的;以后的;接近末期的;晚年的;
"He was banished to Australia, where he died five years later."
他被流放到澳大利亚，五年后在那里去世。
近义：posterior, subsequent, succeeding, ulterior, farther, following 反义：precedent, prevenient, previous, prior, forefatherly, advance

📚 更多「新概念英语第二册」例句

He has just bought an Australian car and has gone to Alice springs, a small town in the centre of Australia.
他刚买了一辆澳大利亚小汽车，现在去了澳大利亚中部的小镇艾利斯斯普林斯。
Just then, a man hurried to the ticket office.
正在这时，一个男子匆匆奔向售票处。
Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore.
丹奇怪警察为什么找他，但昨天还是去了，结果他一再担心了。
After he was arrested, the man admitted hiding in the box before the plane left London.
此人被逮捕后，承认他是在飞机离开伦敦前躲进箱里的。
By then, however, in many places the grass had already taken root.
然而到那时，很多地方的草已经生了根。
He should have known that the police would never allow this sort of thing.
他本该知道警察绝不会允许这类事情发生。